Iggy Azalea blasts media for trying to create 'beef' between her and Britney Spears
Iggy Azalea is refusing to let her alleged feud with Britney Spears go, blasting the media for pitting two pop stars against each other.
The Fancy hitmaker sparked a potential war of words with her Pretty Girls collaborator over the weekend (27-28Jun15) when she suggested the failure of the song was down to poor promotion.
Commenting on the lacklustre chart performance of the duet, which
only just cracked the Billboard Hot 100 chart's top 30 in May (15),
she tweeted: "It's difficult to send a song up the charts without
additional promo and tv performances etc. unfortunately I'm just
featured.... i would have enjoyed performing it alot, i think it
got off to a powerful start. but you need content to compete in
2015."
Defending her post, she added, "my comment is factual, it applies
to any song. I dont have to suck the womans (Spears) a**hole 24/7
to be her friend, do i? bye girls (sic)."
Many critics interpreted the statement as an attack on Spears,
prompting Azalea to address the issue again by returning to social
media on Monday (29Jun15) and insisting she wasn't bad mouthing the
Toxic hitmaker, and now she has released a series of tweets
blasting the media for trying to start a new celebrity feud.
She writes, "I am honestly not surprised but still really saddened
that the media is trying to create a 'beef' between @britneyspears
and myself... We remain friends and i haven't said anything
negative at all about her. Does wishing we had promoted a single
more make me the bad guy? i feel like the media wants women in
music to get out and mud wrestle each other. As a woman i take
great offense.
"Women in the media should be able to have a grown up and
subjective opinion without it being anything more than that. its
disappointing... No one is throwing 'shade' or 'shots' on either
side of the table. The girl (Spears) is my friend and i support her
100%... i feel like the press just wants to see girls be overtly
sexual to one another, and have no real opinion other than 'i love
it!'"
She adds, "Im over it. Women in music are not the same as a teen
drama. Stop making us all out to be, we are business women &
artists. Not mean girls."